Make thread into blog post?

[indie]

And vice versa.

Is there a way to do this? This would be nice. Some people have forums they used for things like journals, reviews, etc. It would be nice to be able to move these threads to a blog category.

[MJM]

Ah yes, this is the complexity of having two locations for blogs - the forum and the blog.
The forum provides community 'categories' where blogs are posted and the blog addon provides a users with personal categories.

I am looking for the day, while in addition to allowing a personal category section, of providing the means for admin to create default community blog categories.
Furthermore it would be cool if the users Forum thread blogs could be listed in these default blog categories! :eek:

Oh well, such is the difficulty arising from creating an independent blog addon outside of the users already tried and accepted forum thread blogging system.

I shall wait a while and see how this blog addon pans out before getting it and confusing our members/readers more than necessary.

Till someone else can provide you with a solution to your request, here's a couple of suggestions ...
- create a blog entry of forum thread blogs with abstracts > links to forum thread(s)
- Click on forum post Reply Quote > copy text into blog entry
In a way this goes against the grain of having it in the community forum, though it could provide an additional means for limited viewing/commentary, if the settings are set this way.

[Jamie Edwards]

vBulletin has a very well organised code base and class structure, with a very powerful 'datastore' class. It surprises me that blog posts and threads are not treated as the same object and simply used in different contexts with a wrapper.

[Gladius]

This feature will be a must for us as well... I hope it gets added soon.

[FreshFroot_]

same here, I have a forum with writing from members and it would be great to some how be able to move the threads with the replies into the blogs area. That way the #1 post is the BLOG post and the replies become the comments for it! :D

[Spinball]

Yes, we have a forum specifically where people have detailed and documented the construction of their home cinemas. This is an ideal forum to convert all the threads and replies to blog entries and comments.
I suppose each post in a thread by the thread starter should be converted to a new blog entry, and every reply by other users should be converted to comments in reply to the blog owner's entry which immediately precedes them.

[alexander88]

I think so too. It is great, that someone agrees about it. I had met many people who were against it. But it is nice to know I am not alone with such

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[Freddie Bingham]

It's on the todo list.

[Lizard King]

We have a forum which all threads need to be approved. The section is for members own literature writings and our moderators check numerous things before approving the threads. If the mod find the thread not suitable for the forum we delete the thread and ask the user to post it to their blog. However if there is a function on backend like : donot approve the thread send it to users blog it will be perfect for us

[FreshFroot_]

It's on the todo list.
I hope so.. this feature would REALLY help me out right now.

[Cartifex]

Same here... I was going to buy the blog add-on but I don't like that it is blog entries are not link to threads. Also the comments system is redundant.

I want to be able to post a blog short story with the long story.... if you click on the "Read More" button it will send you to the thread.

[Tigratrus]

::nods::

I think understand where you're coming from... If so, this is what we were talking about in the integration/balkanization thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241504). The good thing is that Freddie has indicated that it's something that can certainly be addressed, it's simply a question of whether enough people would find it a useful change. Feel free to make your voice heard ;-).

On the positive side, Freddie et all certainly seem to have built a solid, extensible foundation. Things can only get better from here!

James and Susan

[sharrison]

This is standard in vblogetin and the main reason I originally opted for it. Absolutely must be included in vblog. The excuse that some sites wouldn't care for it is moot, simply make it have an on/off option admin configurable.

[FreshFroot_]

This is standard in vblogetin and the main reason I originally opted for it. Absolutely must be included in vblog. The excuse that some sites wouldn't care for it is moot, simply make it have an on/off option admin configurable.
I second that.. it should be an options and I'm sure the dev team is working on it for the next release. :)

[indie]

It's on the todo list.
Nice! Thanks

[cellarius]

It's on the todo list.
Great! Anyway, just wanted to say that this is what keeps me from buying at the moment :p

[Spinball]

It's on the todo list.
Freddie (or any vB developer), can you tell me how you intend to implement this?
Will each thread get converted into 1 blog entry with comments converted to replies?
If so, I have a problem with this because our members have a thread which they, and other people reply to. Subsequent replies by the original poster *should* be converted to separate blog entries.
So how to you intend to manage the conversion?
Ideally an in-line tool with checkboxes will allow us to select which specific posts in a thread get separated out to a single blog entry and its comments.

[Tigratrus]

Spinball:

Take a look at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241504 and if you think you're thinking about something along those lines please post your thoughts there? I'd love to get feedback from other folks that are looking at Thread->Blog Blog->Thread interaction... Thanks!

James and Susan

[Spinball]

Interesting thread of yours, that.
It seems to me that people who come to a forum to post understand what forums are and how they work. The concept of posting to a blog in the same 'session' seems to be as different as going to the movies is to going shopping. They aren't the same and people regard them as two completely discrete activities.
This is illustrated by the fact that despite installing the vB official blog very soon after release and despite promoting the blogs on our home page and in the postbit, we still have only 57 blogs from our 206,000 members. We have 10 times more new threads every day. 9 blog entries today.
Our blog is a big flop. So far.

The blog plugin presents us with moderating problems as well. Blogs are seen as the property of the author even more than threads and posts. For this reason is it acceptable to enforce the same rather strict language and behaviour rules that we do on our forums? Yes is my answer since I hope that the blogs will be read by the wider community and it is the wider community who we are considering when composing our rules. Yet this may not be the most condusive environment for blogging.
We have also had spammers blog unnoticed since nobody is reading the blogs. I have had a moderator recruited who just monitors the blogs. Yet his instructions are different to normal moderating instructions since I don't think it is appropriate for moderators to make moderating comments in blogs in the same way that they might reply to a thread. If we're going to nurture the blogs, we don't want to alienate the bloggers by having moderators post in them. So it's PMs to naughty bloggers.

Oh and does the infraction system work on blogs? And the new anti-spamming system? They need to.

Blogging is such a big deal at the moment that blogging sites are valued much more highly when being sold than forums. Blogs are perceived as the most valuable of social networking platforms. I would like my forum members to keep their own separate blogs detailing the development and maintenance of their home cinemas. But it isn't happening.

I'm not sure Tigratrus has the answer. I don't know what the answer might be because I don't blog myself, so I don't really understand what the appeal is. Maybe I'm too old. Maybe that's the problem for our forum. Is blogging for young folks? Cos the average age of people on AVForums is mid thirties.

[athlon64bit]

The only reason that I have not purchased the vblog software yet for my vb forum is because there is no convert threads into blogs feature. Will there be a long wait for this feature to be implemented? Like is it a "high priority" feature? Anyone know?

[Kerry-Anne]

There is a forum to blog importer in impex :)

[athlon64bit]

Oh excellent Kerry!!! Thank you! I will buy the blog when 3.7 is released and install them both at the same time.:cool: